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WHAT IT TAKES
Barbara Bronson Gray
Barbara Bronson Gray		 Turns out we're a nation of doctor pleasers when it comes to health care. A recent study found that patients avoid challenging their physicians because they're afraid of getting the "difficult patient" label.
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Jessie Gruman
Jessie Gruman

Advice Urges Wider Sharing of Heart Care Decisions

Wednesday, 05.16.2012   1:25 PM
The goal is "not only living long, it's living well. People often make decisions about the 'long' without even considering the 'well,'" said Jessie Gruman, president of the Center for Advancing Health, a patient advocacy group.
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Conversation Continues
Conversation Continues

Reading, Writing…Weight Control?

Tuesday, 05.15.2012   3:58 PM
"If you believe this is a massive national problem, you have to deal with it in a systems way," says, Dan Glickman, chair of an Institute of Medicine panel/report, "Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention".
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Andrew Schorr
Andrew Schorr

Guest Blog: What Fuels Patients Searching Online

Thursday, 05.10.2012   11:00 AM
From day one, Patient Power has been about giving a voice to patients and addressing the real concerns and issues of patients and caregivers. That’s one reason we do regular visitor surveys, such as our current Spring 2012 survey. We constantly strive to better understand the people we serve; their needs and concerns; and the impact of what we provide. The initial results are fascinating and I wanted to share some here...
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Sarah Greene
Sarah Greene		 I discovered somewhat by accident – early in my career -- that science makes faster progress and produces better results if more people with a range of different expertise are brought together. In the past 10 years, I’ve extended this belief to patients’ participation in their care.
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Trudy Lieberman
Trudy Lieberman

Selling Screening Tests

Tuesday, 05.08.2012   1:02 PM
A few weeks ago, a letter arrived from the Life Line Screening company enticing me to come in for a “simple, potentially lifesaving screening” to assess my risk for strokes and other vascular diseases.
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Hospitals, Practice Administrators and Clinicians: You Gotta Learn to Love Patient Ratings (Health Affairs Blog)

 Jessie GrumanYou are increasingly being held accountable for the outcomes of the health care you deliver. Pay for performance; shared savings in ACOs; public report cards…the list of strategies to monitor and measure the effects of your efforts is lengthening. Many of you seem dismayed by the increased weight accorded to the patient experience of care ratings embedded in most of these programs...Read More

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Small Steps: Adapting to New Technology for Better Health

Joan RederJoan Reder, a person with diabetes, spends her days working as a medical transcriptionist, so you might assume she’d be pretty comfortable with anything involving medicine. But recently, the 59 year-old was faced with the daunting prospect of converting from her familiar daily insulin injections to an insulin pump, which would continuously monitor her blood glucose and deliver insulin to her body when needed....Read More

AFTERSHOCK
AfterShock:
What to Do When the Doctor Gives You – Or Someone You Love – A Devastating Diagnosis


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